JINS 3000 - Fringe Thought

This course explores fringe thought within the context of Conspiracy Theory, Paranormal Belief and Urban Legend. The class will seek to understand these various modes of fringe thought within the context of their communities while exploring mainstream academic and theoretical approaches to these subjects from a variety of disciplines. Exploration in this course will focus on the function of fringe thinking, identifying constituency and looking at the intersections of fringe thought and the media.

Prerequisite: JINS eligibility (55-95 credits applied).
Credit(s): 3
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This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Dialogues.
This course is writing-enhanced course.